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==DC Universe Online biography==
 
==DC Universe Online biography==
  
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Sutri of Mars is one of several other-dimensional heroes that were captured by Brainiac during the villain's numerous trips through time and the Multiverse.  Brainiac had traveled the Multiverse in search of unique heroes and villains from many worlds including alternate Earths to use as an army.  Marsboy was being used as a template for many of the new exobyte-enhanced humans until he was able to escape from a Brainiac ship with help from this Earth's Oracle and Superman.  Upon escaping captivity, he sought out his best Earth friend Superboy, only to discover that he was on an alternate Earth and timeline from the one he had known.  Superman offered Marsboy his aid and sponsored him as an honorary Justice League member seeking out his help in a series of adventures.  Adjusting to his new life in this new time and this new Earth, Sutri has joined a new team of heroes known as Young Unity which features several of the exobyte-enhanced and other trans-dimensional heroes that Brainiac had kidnapped.
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Garth Ranzz of 30th Century Amarta is one of several other-dimensional heroes that were captured by Brainiac during the villain's numerous trips through time and the Multiverse.  Brainiac had traveled the Multiverse in search of unique heroes and villains from many worlds including alternate Earths to use as an army.  Lightning Boy was being used as a template for many of the new exobyte-enhanced humans until he was able to escape from a Brainiac ship with help from this Earth's Oracle and Superman.  Upon escaping captivity, he sought out his 20th Century Earth friend Superboy, only to discover that he was on an alternate Earth and timeline from the one he had known.  Superman offered Lightning Boy his aid and sponsored him as an honorary Justice League member seeking out his help in a series of adventures.  Adjusting to his new life in this new time and this new Earth, Garth has joined a new team of heroes known as Young Unity which features several of the exobyte-enhanced and other trans-dimensional heroes that Brainiac had kidnapped.
  
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Marsboy's current whereabouts are in Central City stopping the Reapers from destroying the timeline, but often aids his teammates and other heroes in Metropolis and Gotham City.
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Lightning Boy's current whereabouts are in Central City stopping the Reapers from destroying the timeline, but often aids his teammates and other heroes in Metropolis and Gotham City.
  
 
==DC Comics biography==
 
==DC Comics biography==
  
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Alter Ego: Sutri<br />
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Alter Ego: Garth Ranzz<br />
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Other Alias: Joe Mars, Clark Kent, Superboy<br />
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Other Alias: Lightning Lad<br />
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Known Relatives: None<br />
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Known Relatives: Mekt Ranzz (Brother)<br />
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Homeworld: Mars<br />
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Homeworld: amarta<br />
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Height: 5' 10"<br />
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Height: 5' 11"<br />
 
Weight: 190 lbs.<br />
 
Weight: 190 lbs.<br />
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Eyes: Green<br />
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Eyes: Blue<br />
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Hair: Originally Reddish Blond, later Light Brown<br />
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Hair: Reddish Blond<br />
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First Appearance: SUPERBOY #14 (May-June 1951)<br />
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First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #247 (April 1958)<br />
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Powers: Super-Strength, Invulnerability, Super-Speed, Flight, Super-Hearing, Super-Breath, Heat Vision, X-Ray Vision (except through copper), Telescopic Vision, & Microscpoic Vision<br />
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Powers: Can generate and hurl powerful lightning bolts (Lightning). His lightning flashes can be seen for miles, which he has used to send signals across space (Flash). He is also able to absorb and harmlessly disperse electrical attacks (Energy Absorption). He can fly using a Rocket Pack.<br />
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Weapons & Equipment: Space-faring capsules for transporting people through space, Martian Loom [weaves steel-like strands]<br />
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Origin/History: Garth and his brother Mekt was out exploring the on the planet Korbal when they encountered a Lightning Monster. The monster hit them with its electrical charges resulting in Garth and Mekt getting electrical powers.  
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Origin/History: Gained Kryptonian-level powers by being exposed to a meteor's supra-universal rays. Weakness to ditanite.  
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===SUPERBOY (Vol. 1) #14 (May-June 1951)===
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===ADVENTURE COMICS (Vol. 1) #247 (April 1958)===
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Marsboy debuts in "The Boy from Mars!," the first story written by William Woolfolk, drawn by Curt Swan & John Fischetti, and edited by Jack Schiff (although Whitney Ellsworth is credited). Marsboy's origin is revealed: He was exposed to supra-universal rays from a falling meteor on Mars which gives him many super-powers including telescopic senses, able to lift millions of vastars, beyond light speed flight, and invulnerability. Marsboy visits with the Visgor Scientific Unit, who reveals that Mars was populated by the people of the lost continent of Mu [using a rocket ship to Mars to escape its destruction]. Using the Viewascope, they also show Sutri that Superboy is the only thing that can prevent them from gaining precious documents needed to save Mars from impending doom.
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Lightning Boy appears in "The Legion of Super-Heroes," the first story written by Otto Binder, drawn by Al Plastino, and edited by Mort Weisinger. In this story, Superboy meets three super-youths [Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl] from the 30th century, who invite him to the future to join their "Super Hero Club."
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Marsboy attempts to steal the Sphinx in Egypt quickly before Superboy notices only to have the Boy of Steel thwart him by restoring the Sphinx. Secretly, Sutri then fails to stop Superboy using a boulder and a thunderstorm. Finally, Marsboy reveals himself and the boys, equally matched, have a stalemate. Marsboy flees and both vow to themselves to learn more about the other.
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    He uses a rocket-pack to fly.
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Sutri learns English and Earth customs by spying on Smallville and then poses as Smallville High exchange student, Joe Mars, where he befriends Clark Kent and professes an interest in ancient history. After four days of not finding anything about Superboy, "Joe" is saved from being hit by a truck. And later that same day in History class, both boys discover each other's identities; Superboy notices that Marsboy was using his X-ray vision on him [to learn the answer of "Name two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Joe"] from which Sutri accidentally discovers that Clark is Superboy. Even though the boys confront each other in the hall, both continue the school day. When the Chemistry class tours an Industrial Plant, "Joe" uses super-breath to trip Clark into a vat of acid revealing his Superboy costume underneath. Quick thinking by Superboy salvages his identity.
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    Lightning Boy is the third to compete with Superboy in a contest to see whom can warn the NOVA EXPRESS about a leaking fuel tank first. Lightning Boy wins the competition and reveals a little about himself, "My hands are like positive and negative poles of a battery! Each time I clap them together, a super-lightning flash leaps forth!" After Superboy is rejected from membership, the true contest is revealed about how well Superboy will accept defeat. Superboy is admitted into the club and Lightning Boy reveals that he used his super-flash to distract Superboy by letting an invisible-eagle escape the Interplanetary zoo.
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Finally, Marsboy continues to put pressure on Superboy by attacking Clark in a trolley full of passengers. And after Superboy manages to escape without revealing anything, Marsboy suggests that they meet in a room at 11 Jones Place in an hour. After that hour, Marsboy appears and reveals that the documents that Marsboy needs within the Sphinx are a formula for making water discovered while his people lived in Atlantis. Further, he claims that the room and Superboy have been made radioactive with Radium from Marsboy's X-ray vision, so that Superboy can not interfere with his stealing the Sphinx without harming Earthlings. But, after Marsboy claims that there is no copper in the room for insulation, Superboy deduces the truth and uses a lead cocoon to protect others while flying into space to intercept Marsboy.
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Upon confronting Marsboy in space, Superboy reveals that he can see through copper and can read the documents to him without the need to steal the Sphinx. Marsboy uses his super-memory to remember the formula and the boys part as friends.
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===SUPERBOY (Vol. 1) #16 (September-October 1951)===
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The third story, "Superboy on Mars!" is written by William Woolfolk, drawn by Curt Swan & John Fischetti, and edited by Jack Schiff (although Whitney Ellsworth is credited). Marsboy uses super-ventriliquisism to speak with Superboy from Mars. The boys argue about whose life is easier and decide to switch places to find out.
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<li>Superboy posing as Marsboy is the first to fumble when he mistakenly destroys comets that were purposefully being attracted for Energy Converters to Mars.
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<li>Marsboy posing as Superboy almost fails to save a crashing blimp thinking that all Earth people possess anti-gravity belts.
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<li>Superboy as Marsboy fails to help Martian Centurions find escaped space pirates in the labyrinths of a Martian mountain due to his inability to see through lead.
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<li>Marsboy as Superboy almost creates an explosion when his X-ray vision fails to see a truck full of explosives due to its copper-lined walls.
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<li>Superboy inadvertantly reveals Sutri's identity to a para-puppy [thinking it was a non-talking pet], who is then determined to reveal the truth to the rest of Mars.
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<li>Marsboy posing as Clark Kent reveals his pal's id by predicting a storm [not knowing that Earth hadn't perfected XN's theory of weather casting].
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Fed up, the boys meet back in space and proclaim each other's world is more difficult. After switching back to their proper identities, they send meteorites [Ditanite for Marsboy and Kryptonite for Superboy] to their respective planets and resume their lives. The people of each planet deduce that exposure to their weaknesses must have caused the hero's to act weird.
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The first story, "Lana Lang's Romance on Mars!" is written by an unknown writer with art by Curt Swan & Stan Kaye; edited by Whitney Ellsworth. After capturing a Martian criminal who escaped from prison using an experimental rocket to Earth, Marsboy enlists Superboy's aid in capturing a second criminal who is hidden in a vast, copper-lined underground labyrinth on Mars. [His origin is recapped for the reader.] But, While Superboy finishes some chores first, Lana Lang blackmails Marsboy by threatening to reveal his secret identity to his prisoner [despite her not hearing what his real name is]. She demands that he take her back to Mars and pretend to be in love with her to make Superboy jealous. Superboy is unimpressed when Lana forces Marsboy to do her bidding rather than take care of Martian emergencies, so he fights back by making Lana jealous of his new Martian girlfriend, Cytherea. Lana eventually gives up and reveals the truth to Superboy and they return to Earth. Rewritten to become "Lana Lang and the Legion of Super-Heroes!" with Starboy in place of Marsboy - ADVENTURE COMICS (Vol. 1) #282, March 1961.
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Revision as of 17:44, 7 September 2013

Lightning Boy
Marsboy - DCUO
Garth Ranzz


LEAGUE: Young Unity
LEVEL: 30
TEAM: Hero
MENTOR: Superman
POWER: Lightning
WEAPON Hand Blasts
MOVEMENT: Flight
ALLIES: Logi, Wonder Boy, Bat Lad, Kral, Marsboy, Arisia, Air Wave, Starboy, Teen Wolf, Ibis

DC Universe Online biography

Garth Ranzz of 30th Century Amarta is one of several other-dimensional heroes that were captured by Brainiac during the villain's numerous trips through time and the Multiverse. Brainiac had traveled the Multiverse in search of unique heroes and villains from many worlds including alternate Earths to use as an army. Lightning Boy was being used as a template for many of the new exobyte-enhanced humans until he was able to escape from a Brainiac ship with help from this Earth's Oracle and Superman. Upon escaping captivity, he sought out his 20th Century Earth friend Superboy, only to discover that he was on an alternate Earth and timeline from the one he had known. Superman offered Lightning Boy his aid and sponsored him as an honorary Justice League member seeking out his help in a series of adventures. Adjusting to his new life in this new time and this new Earth, Garth has joined a new team of heroes known as Young Unity which features several of the exobyte-enhanced and other trans-dimensional heroes that Brainiac had kidnapped.

Lightning Boy's current whereabouts are in Central City stopping the Reapers from destroying the timeline, but often aids his teammates and other heroes in Metropolis and Gotham City.

DC Comics biography

Lightningboy-plastino.gif

Alter Ego: Garth Ranzz
Other Alias: Lightning Lad
Known Relatives: Mekt Ranzz (Brother)
Homeworld: amarta
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Reddish Blond
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #247 (April 1958)
Powers: Can generate and hurl powerful lightning bolts (Lightning). His lightning flashes can be seen for miles, which he has used to send signals across space (Flash). He is also able to absorb and harmlessly disperse electrical attacks (Energy Absorption). He can fly using a Rocket Pack.
Origin/History: Garth and his brother Mekt was out exploring the on the planet Korbal when they encountered a Lightning Monster. The monster hit them with its electrical charges resulting in Garth and Mekt getting electrical powers.

Marsboy-swan3.gif

ADVENTURE COMICS (Vol. 1) #247 (April 1958)

Lightning Boy appears in "The Legion of Super-Heroes," the first story written by Otto Binder, drawn by Al Plastino, and edited by Mort Weisinger. In this story, Superboy meets three super-youths [Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl] from the 30th century, who invite him to the future to join their "Super Hero Club." 

   He uses a rocket-pack to fly.
   Lightning Boy is the third to compete with Superboy in a contest to see whom can warn the NOVA EXPRESS about a leaking fuel tank first. Lightning Boy wins the competition and reveals a little about himself, "My hands are like positive and negative poles of a battery! Each time I clap them together, a super-lightning flash leaps forth!" After Superboy is rejected from membership, the true contest is revealed about how well Superboy will accept defeat. Superboy is admitted into the club and Lightning Boy reveals that he used his super-flash to distract Superboy by letting an invisible-eagle escape the Interplanetary zoo.
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